Information about the 1903 riot in Oxford, Ohio is included at this Darrtown website BECAUSE:
1️⃣ Many people who live (or lived) in or near Darrtown have (or had) a connection with Oxford, Ohio and/or Miami University and it is presumed that such persons will be interested in the following information.
2️⃣ It is historically informative to see the style in which newspaper articles were written in the early part of the 20th century.
BACKGROUND:
The story about the Oxford riot of 1903 was discovered in the following manner:
▶︎ An article surfaced in several 1906 newspapers about a Darrtown man seeking custody of his niece and it was revealed that the child's mother was a bigamist (married to six living men).
▶︎ Two of the woman's six husbands were brothers named George and John Spivey.
▶︎ In an email to the webmaster, Valerie Elliot asked if George and John Spivey were related to brothers Joseph and Louis Spivey who were responsible for a riot in Oxford, Ohio in 1903.
▶︎ Research, in response to Valerie's question about the Oxford riot, yielded the items displayed below.
The marshal was shot; the brothers fled on foot. A deputy marshal and a group of citizens pursued the Kentucky boys. The deputy marshal and another man also suffered gunshot wounds.
Eventually, both Spivey brothers were captured and placed in the Oxford jail.
NEWSPAPER ARTICLE NO. 1 - from the Courier-Journal of Louisville, Kentucky - October 2, 1903
NEWSPAPER ARTICLE NO. 2 - from the Courier-Journal of Louisville, Kentucky - October 2, 1903
Two Spivey brothers from Kentucky attended a street fair in the city of Oxford. Following their consumption of alcohol, the brothers discharged their guns in the streets - which led to a confrontation with the local marshal.
A group of men, described as a "mob" by newspaper accounts, overpowered jail personnel and removed Joseph Spivey from the jail to be lynched.
Officials regained control of Joseph Spivey and returned him to the Oxford jail. From there, both Spivey brothers were transported to the Butler County Jail in Hamilton, Ohio for incarceration, prosecution, and trial.
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES PUBLISHED AFTER THE SPIVEY BROTHERS WERE INCARCERATED AT THE BUTLER COUNTY (OHIO) JAIL
OCTOBER 9, 1903:
OCTOBER 2, 1903:
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NOVEMBER 7, 1903:
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DECEMBER 31, 1903:
Info related to the two sets of Spivey brothers
The following records were discovered during the search for a family connection between brothers George and John Spivey (who were two of the six men married to a bigamist) and brothers Joseph and Louis Spivey (central to the 1903 Oxford riot story).
These items may be useful in the continuing search for a family connection between the two sets of Spivey brothers.
"Darrtown" Spiveys
"Oxford" Spiveys
George and John Spivey were brothers-in-law to Edward Bacon, a Darrtown resident. See the Spivey family profile at...
George's marriage to his bigamist wife is verified at:
Newspaper items report, that Louis and Joseph Spivey lived near Maysville, Kentucky and their father lived in Estill County, Kentucky.
Darrtown's Connection to the Oxford Riot
Return to Manrod family
Return to Manrod family
The records above do not definitively prove, but strongly suggest, that Deputy Marshal Jacob Manrod (born 1850), who was shot by Joseph Spivey, during the 1903 Oxford riot, was the son of Darrtown area farmer of Jacob Manrod (born 1806) - see Darrtown Family page / Manrod.
This census lists Jacob, a Milford Twp. resident, as an "apprentice blacksmith."
This item ties Jacob, initially a Darrtown area farm boy, to his blacksmith work for John Woodfuff, who became the marshal at Oxford.
This link leads to info about Jacob's burial in the Oxford cemetery.
Go to Darrtown connection to the Oxford riot of 1903
OVERVIEW OF THE 1903 RIOT AT OXFORD, OHIO: